Creative Blackpool Network Breakfast

We’re bringing Blackpool’s creative community together for a morning of connection, conversation, and new opportunities.

Creative Blackpool Network Breakfast

We’re bringing Blackpool’s creative community together for a morning of connection, conversation, and new opportunities.This breakfast event is a chance to:

• Discover upcoming creative opportunities across the town
• Be part of the conversation shaping Blackpool’s cultural ecosystem
• Share your projects, ideas, and ambitions with fellow creatives
• Build relationships that strengthen our growing creative network

Whether you’re an artist, maker, producer, venue, freelancer, or someone championing creativity in Blackpool, your voice and presence matter.

Come along, get inspired, and help shape what’s next for creativity in our town.

Agenda:

• 8.30am - 8.40am Arrivals. We will begin in the Studio.
• 8.40am - 8.50am. Introductions. Lets find out who is in the room.
• 8.50am - 9am - Creative Blackpool update. Updates on Blackpool's UK City of Culture bid, Seed Funding and Creative Community Commissions the Creative Horizons events and future cultural sector development opportunities.
• 9am - 9.20am - Karen Cody will demonstrate how to navigate the Arts Council grant funding system with a chance to answer your questions.
• 9.20am - 9.30am - In conversation with Nathan Parker on his work as an author, poet, performer and what is coming next.
• 9.30am - 10.30am Networking and consultation. A chance to build connections over a cup of tea and pastry. Join round table conversations about Blackpool's creative future in particular the UK City of Culture bid.